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Current Graduate Offerings

Current Graduate Offerings

Fall 2017

You are welcome to contact the instructor for more information about any course below. E-mail addresses can be obtained from the Math Department Directory Page.

Roughly speaking, 500-level courses are intended as first-year M.S. courses, 600-level are more advanced M.S. level courses, and 700-level courses are doctoral courses. With the exception of Math 452, most 400-level courses do not count toward program requirements.

Note: Except as noted, all courses below the 600-level that are listed below are now planned on being offered annually.

Links with further information will be added as provided by the instructor. Comments on this page represent brief remarks by the Graduate Director as to how each course fits into the graduate program. Catalog descriptions of the courses are available through the University’s website or at Available Math Courses.

Math 793I. SPTP: Spatial Simulation in Bio-Molecular Systems

A course on spatial stochastic (Monte Carlo) simulations of molecular processes in living cells. The course might be of interest to those who took one or both semesters of Mathematical Systems Biology in the past years. However, this course is meant to be self contained, and pre-requisite knowledge is some familiarity with dynamical systems, basic multivariate calculus and probability. We will spend a few classes on basic models in systems biology and (a superficial) summary of chemical reaction systems. The core course focuses on the connection between the continuum picture (reaction-diffusion systems represented by PDE) and the behavior of individual particles. The ideas behind these simulation methods are quite general, and might be useful in other applications. Students proficient in programming will have the option of choosing projects that center on writing simulation programs.

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Courses in other departments

Approved courses in other departments may be used as part of your program of study, under guidelines contained in the Graduate Handbook. In particular, the Department maintains close ties with Statistics, and with Computer Science (part of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering). Also, students in the Mathematics for Secondary Educators option in the M.S. program sometimes include mathematics education courses in their program of study. You are, of course, responsible for any prerequisites, and you may take an undergraduate prerequisite as an "extra" course outside your program of study. Within statistics, the basic course is STAT 561, Theory of Statistics I, which is the first semester of the basic two-semester graduate sequence in probability theory and statistics. Depending on your background, computer science courses in algorithms, complexity, automata, or formal language theory might be suitable, particularly if you are interested in the CCDM program. Courses in computer programming and computer languages normally cannot be counted as part of your program, but can be taken if time allows and are a useful part of a general background in the mathematical sciences. Talk to your advisor or faculty associated with these areas if you are interested in courses outside the department.